Along with The Harder They Come (1972), Rockers (1978) helped to bring reggae and Rastafarian culture to the big screen, and I’ve been busy writing up a review of Rockers in anticipation of the film’s showing at the Belcourt Theatre’s Music City Monday screening of the movie next week. The film is focused on a drummer named Leroy, and his family and friends in a Rastafarian community in Kingston. The movie shares themes and narrative techniques with De Sica’s The Bicycle Thieves, but it also reads like a musical with nearly every scene throbbing and bouncing on top of a soundtrack featuring a Wjo’s Who of reggae bands and artists including Lee Perry, Burning Spear, Peter Tosh, Junior Murvin and more.
If you’re in Nashville, read my review in The Contributor next week. Watch the trailer at the link above, and get your soul right with the soundtrack right here…
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